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My lovely and talented wife had finally succumbed to my remorseless campaign for a wifi enabled Palm (despite the parlous state of our finances, the $2500 mac at my desk, and the Tungsten T), and so I won a Tungsten C. Unfortunately “won” has turned into a bit of a euphemism. After failing to get in touch with the seller three times over six days, I was beginning to hope I could back out of the auction and get a Sony Clié UX-50 instead – it is around the same price-point and has a nicer keyboard, bigger monitor, and a built-in camera, but the downside of being a discontinued product line and only accepting Sony’s memory-dick cards.

So, of course, within an hour of me emailing eBay’s customer service, the guy emails me and gives me enough information to think he’s legit and had a valid enough excuse (he was setting up his new intel iMac.) So I paypal him the next day. A day or so after that, I get an email from PayPal saying “Your package will be shipped by PayPal shipping.” Great! I thought, he’s got a pre-printed label and everything, it’s going to be here soon!

Turns out that the “will” was meant more indefinitely than my hope indicated, and as of today USPS says only that they’ve been notified by the shipper. So when a school comrade said he’d buy it off me if it ever showed up, my heart leaped for joy.

So I just bought a brand fucking new Palm T|X, which with my trial Prime subscription will get here Friday, and I am very, very excited.

I will be able to sync project-related program activities over wifi to my server running OpenGroupware, read scientific papers without lugging about printouts, continue writing for Winds of Titan (unlike most people, I seem to be fully acclimatized to Graffitti, and the T|X’s write-anywhere feature gets rid of the one thing that was slowing me down – the need to keep my hand from wandering from the input area.)

There are a bunch of other things I want to do with it; I’ll be posting here with what works for me. Thanks, Vika!